War Of 1812 Chronicles

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Still Smoking At Sackets Harbor

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"Colonel Macomb received orders to return with four companies of his Regiment, with all despatch, to Sackett's Harbour ." ...

Friday, May 24, 2019

Lieutenant-Colonel Bouchette

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Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bouchette , son of the Commodore, began his career in the provincial navy under his father. He made the first...

Monday, May 20, 2019

Try To Become A Seargeant Or Corporal

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From The Sherrard Family Of Steubenville : "After Captain Peck got home, my brother John wrote to us from camp at Fort Stephenson,...

Sunday, May 12, 2019

View Of The Fort's Remains

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From The Sherrard Family Of Steubenville : The next day [in 1824] I and Colonel Chambers went down to the town of Lower Sandusky, whic...

Sunday, May 5, 2019

News That's Fit To Print

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"On the morning after the commodore sailed the following appeared in the New York Columbian : 'It is undoubtedly a fact that dispa...

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The First Expedition

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The First Expedition. So emboldened had the Indians become, and so grave the fear of an invasion by the British and Indians upon our nort...

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Organizing The New Army

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The Secretary of War Eustis, desiring Lieut. Col. Macomb, to assist him in organizing the new Army, called him from his duties as Ch...

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